We are back CRAZIES!!! With any luck, I'll hopefully be enjoying the opening day of the San Diego County Fair today, but if not, I won't complain about making some money at work. Comic Con ain't cheap after all!
Speaking of money, you may have heard last week that I got a couple of pieces up in the Team Cul De Sac Art Auction. Well, it's true and it's this weekend over at HeroesCon in Charlotte, North Carolina! The pieces below will be up for bidding and it's your chance to add a little CRAZY to your wall decor! And best of all, it's for a good cause! The pieces are:
Fidgety Digits: Cul De Sac meets Peanuts as Alice, Petey and Pals pay musical tribute to Snoopy and friends all set to the fun of an oboe recital! Pen and ink on Bristol Smooth, colored with Copic and PrismaColor Markers.
Bubble Fox Level Up!: Bubble Fox has hit his maximum power and is ready for any and all challengers as he pays tribute to Akira Toriyama and the world of Dragonball! Pen and ink on Bristol Vellum, colored in colored pencils, oil pastels and PrismaColor Markers.
Parkinson's disease is a horrible thing folks. It's robbed us of many, including Cul De Sac creator Richard Thompson. If you're heading to HeroesCon next weekend, please consider stopping in at the Art Auction and dropping some bids. In addition to my art, MANY others will have pieces up for bidding, including legendary MAD Artist, Sergio Aragones! It's a good cause folks, so lets try and help put a boot to the ass of Parkinson's once and for all! For more info, click here and here.
And now, it's time for something old and new. Old in that it happened a decade ago, but new in that these are completely unseen pics from the CRAZY archives! That's right kids! We're dialing the Wayback Machine back to 2014 and set the location at the San Diego Convention Center! It's a hot weekend in July and the place is jumping! Hold on to your Code Red Mountain Dews, because the CRAZY COMIC CON COUNTDOWN continues! Enjoy...
Fry, Amy and Leela take in the sights of Has-Been Alley, er, the Sails Pavilion! I miss the days when the Freebies Table gave away actual cool swag!
Where are the Wild Things at? Dollar Bin diving of course!
Always something cool going on at the Petco Park Interactive Zone! If memory serves, Marriott Hotels was sponsoring cosplay/monster makeup demos all weekend!
The couple that cosplays together STAYS together!
The infamous Homer Dome. We spent hours waiting to do this immersive experience of being stuck inside the head of Homer Simpson. And what was it exactly? A whirlwind montage of Seasons 3-8 clips, aka GOOD Simpsons. Not all offsite activations are worth it folks. Always weight the risks and rewards.
The Disney Infinity lounge exclusively for D23 members! Being a D23 Member, I took my nephew, who was a huge fan of the game and he got some cool swag from it. Then Disney shut Infinity down a few months later! Never understood why as the game was quite popular. Perhaps competition from the more popular Skylanders series, not to mention Nintendo and Lego getting in on the act too, made it a necessary sacrifice? At least we have the memories. And completely useless interactive figurines that no longer function!
Speaking of my nephew, here he is at the Xbox Lounge having fun at the Dragon Age photo op!
Bet you never realized how badly you needed Lego Smaug in your life?!?
The Sin City activation at the Petco Park Interactive Zone! I'm gonna be honest folks. I totally forgot there was a Sin City sequel! The offsite was pretty cool though, especially old cars are your thing!
They're on a mission from God...
Definitely feel safer walking around Downtown San Diego with the Ghostbusters on patrol!
He's looking for Troy McClure!
Always a busy time in the exhibit hall!
We'll end things today with the Sleepy Hollow activation at the Petco Park Interactive Zone! I only vaguely remember the show coming on and the offsite was kind of a letdown too. And the Zone was stacked that year too!
And that was Comic Con 2014! A wild week as I recall! Me and my brother's kids did just about EVERYTHING that year! It was also the year that offsite activations really started stepping things up in terms of stealing thunder from SDCC itself. The organizers have always had a tense relationship with the offsites for that reason. It's why they don't do concerts at the pops site behind the Convention Center anymore unless it's SDCC approved. I don't like how many are run, but overall, I love the offsite activations. They are a lot of fun and give folks who normally wouldn't get to enjoy Comic Con a chance to enjoy some of that fun too. Looking forward to what this year has to offer!
Another week down in our march to the big weekend, but fear not! We are still very early on here in the CRAZY COMIC CON COUNTDOWN, so be sure to come back and see what past treasures are unearthed next! Until then, take care, stay safe and I'll catch y'all later!
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